CHAPTER XXVI
A FEW SURPRISING DISCLOSURES
When Judge Danvers returned to the city he at once set himself to the completion of his plans for the liberation of Major Montague.
This was all the easier, because the very man who had caused that gentleman’s arrest had done so without any intention of actually bringing him to any “trial and conviction.”
Such a net as they had cast around the Major was readily untangled by the skilful fingers of the great lawyer, even while he transferred the whole of it to his own control.
As to the moderate sum of money it cost him, he never once thought of that.
The immediate consequences were twofold.
The first, that Major Montague found himself that Saturday morning, sitting in front of the Judge’s table in the inner room of his suite of “offices,” to all appearances, at least, a free man again.
The second, that the moment the doors of the prison closed behind him and he found his movements once more untrammeled, Major Montague began to feel a strong return of his habitual “bumptiousness,” not to say insolence, of disposition.